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...sell out or go public as soon as they can) and marketing (consumer companies spend at least a few bucks on advertising to consumers) along the way. "Don came up from the bottom and did not forget the lessons he learned from the street," says John Vaccaro, owner of Bett-A-Way Traffic Systems in South Plainfield, N.J., Arizona's national logistics provider for the past 14 years. "Now he's a street fighter in the boardroom...
...Bett's son Duane, also a guitar player, joined the band for "Soulshine," a soulful gospel-inspired number from the new album and for "Same Thing," a blues standard. Later on it set, the band was joined by Sheryl Crow for "Midnight Rider" and by John Popper on "One Way Out." The set's closer, "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" and the encore, "Whipping Post," didn't quite reach the heights that they are sometimes capable of reaching, perhaps because of what lay ahead for the band...
...instead of measuring myself against wooden dolls, I cope through rationalization. I've gotten good at it. I've perfected the old "well-I-could-do-it-if-I-wanted-to-but-I-have-bett er-things...
...itself comes under a scathingly iconoclastic attack that makes Joan Rivers look like a Buckingham Palace press agent. The palace protocol contingent, which readies the hospital for the Queen Mother's visit, consist of a midget (Marcus Powell) and a very prim and proper transvestite named Lady Felicity (John Bett). Yet, as the British humor magazine Punch noted in defense of the movie. Anderson ultimately remains just this side of decorum: when the Queen Mother finally does arrive--admittedly in a stretcher and ambulance to get her past the left-wing mobs protesting the fascist African dictator being treated inside...
...picked up Richard Bett's Highway Call early this fall, and it's been on the record player pretty much ever since, though I've never tried to figure out why until now. I haven't always been so neglectful: a couple of years ago when Merle Haggard and John Prine began to wrest the stereo from Dylan and The Dead, it was clearly something to deal with, a question of sanity. But Betts seems like a more innocent orientation. The lead guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band comes out with a solo album, it starts spinning in my room...